Over the years, I have read many of Iris Murdoch’s twenty-six novels. But I still remember the one that drew me in, that led me down the path of excitedly searching library shelves for more stories from this magnificent author. That was her fourth novel, The Bell, set in an enclosed lay religious community where people were “imprisoned” of their own free will. Here I encountered characters the likes of whom I would never expect to meet in my own …
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